Steven J. Vanek

TL;DR: It was found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms, which suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a more vigorous analysis and discussion of the factors discouraging IPM adoption in developing countries may accelerate the progress needed to bring about its full potential.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the fertilizer potential of bone char, the effects of wood biochar on plant-available phosphorus (P), and the role of root-mycorrhizae-biochar interactions in plant P acquisition from a P-fixing soil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the dynamics of differentiated, relational spaces of smallholder intensification/disintensification at region and landscape scales that include a polarization trend, gendered livelihood strategies across spatially differentiated landscapes influenced by smallholder migration and expanded gendering of land and agri-food systems, and complex interactions of agrobiodiversity and agroecosystems mediated by small-holder and gendered knowledge systems across periurban to remote rural landscapes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the role of biochar in promoting plant phosphorus access via arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM), focusing on whether P solubility and biochar-P proximity altered AM enhancement of P uptake.